Even with our medical knowledge of the neurobiologic causes of mental illness, prejudice and discrimination against people with mental illness is not decreasing (according to a study published by Indiana University and Columbia University). The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that there are 450 million people worldwide who suffer with mental illness but fewer than […]

An apology to fans of Gotham as this blog post isn’t about the awesome Batman having a siesta prior to launching an attack on the Joker but on the (often somewhat fudged) acronym names given to clinical trials in the pursuit of creating a captivating trial identity. So which clinical trials were betrothed with BATMAN, […]

Dateline NBC recently aired an hour-long program in the US exposing two Indian clinical research organizations (CROs) and shedding a negative light on the running of clinical trials in the developing world. But what has been the response to this, and is there a flip side to the coin? There are many different reasons why […]